Jimmy Lee Swaggart was born in March 1935, in a sharecropping town in rural Louisiana. His first cousin, rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, was born six months later. Raised together in poverty, both seemed destined for the Pentecostal ministry, and both were adept at the honky-tonk style of piano known as Holy Ghost Boogie. By the late 1980s, Swaggart was one of the most popular preachers in the world, and Jerry Lee was a living legend. This respectful yet honest biography of Swaggart intertwines his life with two intimately linked themes of the American century: Pentacostalism and Rock and Roll. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)